The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gangetic \Gan*get"ic\, a. Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges River; as, the Gangetic shark.
Usage examples of "gangetic".
India to describe not only the Gangetic plain but also those regions that currently enjoy the names Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Then boats or rafts will take us down into the Gangetic plain to where the sixteen kingdoms are.
From north to south, the two rivers run side by side until they arrive at the center of what is known as the Gangetic plain.
During the last century the population of the Gangetic plain has more than doubled, thanks to the ease with which rice can be grown.
But the Himalayas are certainly impressive, particularly when seen from the low flat Gangetic plain.
I was pleased to see that the breasts of both sexes were covered, a tribute to that original Aryan modesty which has been so effectively undone by the languorous climate of the Gangetic plain.
In the Gangetic plain there were fewer than sixteen kingdoms, and no one has ever bothered to count how many nations there are to the south.
As a result, I was able to learn from what looked to be a sober commercial report that Koshala no longer existed, that Virudhaka was dead, that Ajatashatru was the master of the Gangetic plain.
I can tell, the Middle Kingdom is larger than the Gangetic plain but smaller than the Persian empire.
I had the uneasy sense that I was again in the Gangetic plain, where complex things are expressed so simply that they become utterly mysterious.
He knew little of Persia and the west, he said, but he did have some slight knowledge of the kingdoms of the Gangetic plain.
I saw to it that he was deeply impressed by my connection with Ajatashatru, who was now, according to the latest news, master of all the Gangetic plain except for the Licchavi republic.
The hot sun of the Gangetic plain ripens all things quickly, as if fearful that there will be insufficient time for reproduction.
Since the succession was confused, the makeshift empire that he had created in the Gangetic plain promptly fell apart.
But the Great King preferred to conduct his campaigns not in the Gangetic plain or on the banks of the Yellow River but in the houses of the harem.